Map of members

[Parksider]

Austin Any chance that you could add a member map so we could see if people from our area are on Meatgistics? I connected with a guy here in Rochester that grew up in PA about 20 minutes from each other and shared a lot of butchering experiences. We’ve been making sausage together ever since!!

[Austin]

Parksider Well, to do that requires a bit of special coding and programming… But I love the idea! I’m sure I can do that, but I don’t know how long it will take. I love a good challenge though.
I’ll have to look and see what can be done and I’ll report back here. My biggest concern is how many people sign up and actually fill out the location information… I’ll see what I can come up with and let you know!

[Jonathon]

Austin Instead of going and creating a map, a simple solution would be under Roll Call to create a post for every state, then people could name the town in that state that they live in? Maybe a short term option while you look at this extra coding, because I am pretty sure you don’t have the time right now and I don’t have the skill to do that!

[Austin]

Jonathon Parksider
I am working on something. I found a way to do it, but have a few problems with it. I am having another developer take a look at it too and see if they can give me some more direction. I hope to have a solution worked out soon though.

[Jonathon]

Austin That would be really cool to have, nice suggestion Parksider!

[Austin]

Jonathon Parksider PapaSop Joe Hell jehatha
I got the map working!!!

There is one slight downside to it. You have to go in and re-save your profile.

On a mobile device, click the menu button, then “Edit Profile”. On desktop, click your profile image in the top right, then click “Edit Profile”.
Mobile:
Desktop:

From there, just input a “Location” if you don’t already have one entered, and click the “Save” button! (If you already have a location entered you still have to re-save your profile)
You can just do a “City, State” for a slight bit of anonymity, or you can even use a full address.

After updating your location, you can go to https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/map or click the link in the top menu bar that looks like this:

Let me know what you guys think! I think Parksider was spot on with this idea, and this is going to be awesome!!!

[PapaSop]

Austin
Bravo… You da man. That’s very cool. . Well done Austin.

[johnsbrewhouse]

We’ll see if my changes made it

[blackbetty61]

Austin wow that’s pretty cool

[Joe Hell]

Austin Good work!!!

[Parksider]

Austin SWEETTTTTTT!!! This is very cool! looks like it’s only on when someone is active though. I wish more people would build out their profile, I like to see the backstory of how you got into this. Lots of family traditions out there, need to keep it alive!! Thanks, I know I speak for a lot of us, we appreciate what you and Jon are building here, very cool!

[Austin]

Parksider We store the geolocation of whatever you input for your location in your profile, but to initially get the geolocation, an action has to be taken, so only those who have re-saved their profile since we set this up show up on the map. I’m hoping to run a script to automatically run it for every account, but I haven’t had time to get to that part yet. So, hopefully more people add or re-save their location and more will show up, or I get that script finished.

Thank though! Glad you gave us the idea for the map, and I do think it adds a lot to this whole deal, and everyone’s backstory and location is a cool part to see!